We’re delighted to be able to offer our ukulele lessons, as an option for our music lessons in primary school! With the ukulele becoming more and more popular, featuring in popular songs on the radio and in films, we decided to join in a few years ago and develop our own ukulele programme! Since then, our ukulele programme continues to be our most popular, year after year! The ukulele is a fantastic instrument to pick up, whether you’re a guitarist looking for some variety, or you’ve never played an instrument before! Our music lessons in primary school allow students nationwide to pick up a ukulele and learn for themselves! Read on to learn more about our ukulele short programme for primary schools.
The Ukulele
The ukulele is a small, guitar-like instrument. Although it is today associated with Hawaii, the ukulele has its roots in Portugal. The tone and volume of this instrument vary with size and construction. Ukuleles commonly come in four sizes: soprano, concert, tenor, and baritone. A classical guitar will give you a good sense of how a ukulele operates, though the ukulele, as well as being much smaller, has four strings rather than the guitar’s six strings. Ukuleles also are far quieter, and like the guitar they don’t have a deep tone. Similarly, banjos have 4 strings but they can also have 5 strings, and are distinct from ukuleles in their tone which is brighter than the mellow ukulele tone.
Music Lessons for Primary School- Ukulele Classroom Programme
Interest in the ukulele is at an all time high. We believe that this is the case because the ukulele sounds happy, it’s easy to learn and it’s a sociable instrument. As a result of all of this we created a ukulele programme that teaches primary school students how to play the ukulele over the course of a 6 or 18 week short programme, or as a longer term programme for up to 32 weeks.
Programme Aims Include:
- Teach a range of chords enabling students to play a set of songs
- Develop each students musical ear so as they can learn how to tune their ukulele
- Teach students how to play a musical instrument that’s current and sociable
We have four different stages of our Ukulele course:
- Intro to Ukulele
- Level One
- Level One Plus
- Level 2
During a standard primary school day we can take up to 6 class groups for 40 minutes each. Lessons take place in each classes classroom where we make full use of the interactive whiteboard with our visual resources. Our ukulele programme is aimed at children from 3rd to 6th class. If you would like to include the younger classes, we could offer them our Let’s Explore programme (you can find more on that here.)
For more information on what is covered in each level, check out the document below!
Interested in learning more about our ukulele programme? Contact us here.
